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==Etymology==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] rumour, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] rumor clamor, gossip; akin to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] rēon to lament, [[Sanskrit]] rauti he roars
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]
==Definitions==
*1 : talk or opinion widely disseminated with no discernible source
*2 : a statement or report current without known authority for its truth
*3 archaic : talk or report of a notable person or event
*4 : a soft low indistinct sound : murmur
==Description==
A '''rumor''' is often viewed as "an unverified account or [[explanation]] of [[events]] circulating from [[person]] to [[person]] and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in [[public]] concern". However, a review of the [[research]] on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across [[sociology]], [[psychology]], and [[communication]] studies had widely varying definitions of rumor. Thus, rumor is a [[concept]] that lacks a particular definition in the [[social sciences]]. But most [[theories]] agree that rumor involves some kind of a [[statement]] whose [[Truth|veracity]] is not quickly or ever [[confirmed]]. In addition, some [[scholars]] have identified rumor as a subset of [[propaganda]], the latter another notoriously [[difficult]] [[concept]] to define. A pioneer of [[propaganda]] studies, Harold Lasswell defined propaganda in 1927 as referring "solely to the [[control]] of [[opinion]] by significant [[symbols]], or, to speak more concretely and less accurately, by [[stories]], rumors, reports, pictures, and other forms of social [[communication]]". Rumors are also often [[discussed]] with regard to "misinformation" and "disinformation" (the former often seen as simply false and the latter seen as [[deliberately]] false, though usually from a [[government]] source given to the [[media]] or a foreign government). Rumors thus have often been viewed as particular forms of other [[communication]] [[concepts]].
==References==
# Peterson, Warren; Gist, Noel (September (1951)). "Rumor and Public Opinion". The American Journal of Sociology 57 (2): 159–167. doi:10.1086/220916. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602(195109)57%3A2%3C159%3ARAPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I.
# Pendleton, S.c. (1998), 'Rumor research revisited and expanded', Language& Communication, vol. 1. no. 18, pp. 69--86.
# Propaganda Technique in the World War (1927; Reprinted with a new introduction, 1971)
[[Category: Sociology]]
[[Category: Linguistics]]
==Etymology==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] rumour, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] rumor clamor, gossip; akin to [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] rēon to lament, [[Sanskrit]] rauti he roars
*Date: [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Century 14th century]
==Definitions==
*1 : talk or opinion widely disseminated with no discernible source
*2 : a statement or report current without known authority for its truth
*3 archaic : talk or report of a notable person or event
*4 : a soft low indistinct sound : murmur
==Description==
A '''rumor''' is often viewed as "an unverified account or [[explanation]] of [[events]] circulating from [[person]] to [[person]] and pertaining to an object, event, or issue in [[public]] concern". However, a review of the [[research]] on rumor conducted by Pendleton in 1998 found that research across [[sociology]], [[psychology]], and [[communication]] studies had widely varying definitions of rumor. Thus, rumor is a [[concept]] that lacks a particular definition in the [[social sciences]]. But most [[theories]] agree that rumor involves some kind of a [[statement]] whose [[Truth|veracity]] is not quickly or ever [[confirmed]]. In addition, some [[scholars]] have identified rumor as a subset of [[propaganda]], the latter another notoriously [[difficult]] [[concept]] to define. A pioneer of [[propaganda]] studies, Harold Lasswell defined propaganda in 1927 as referring "solely to the [[control]] of [[opinion]] by significant [[symbols]], or, to speak more concretely and less accurately, by [[stories]], rumors, reports, pictures, and other forms of social [[communication]]". Rumors are also often [[discussed]] with regard to "misinformation" and "disinformation" (the former often seen as simply false and the latter seen as [[deliberately]] false, though usually from a [[government]] source given to the [[media]] or a foreign government). Rumors thus have often been viewed as particular forms of other [[communication]] [[concepts]].
==References==
# Peterson, Warren; Gist, Noel (September (1951)). "Rumor and Public Opinion". The American Journal of Sociology 57 (2): 159–167. doi:10.1086/220916. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602(195109)57%3A2%3C159%3ARAPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I.
# Pendleton, S.c. (1998), 'Rumor research revisited and expanded', Language& Communication, vol. 1. no. 18, pp. 69--86.
# Propaganda Technique in the World War (1927; Reprinted with a new introduction, 1971)
[[Category: Sociology]]
[[Category: Linguistics]]
